System and method of cooperative multi-band wireless STA communication that enables full duplex operations are disclosed herein. Frames are configured to carry band information and are selected to be transmitted simultaneously in multiple bands based on various constraints to avoid out-of-order delivery. For frames under a block ACK agreement, a transmit STA can specify the transmission bands for the frames in an ADDBA request frame. While a first band is transmitting a first frame under a block ACK agreement, the second band can be used to transmit a frame under the same block ACK agreement as, and from the same traffic flow with, the first frame. Otherwise, the second band can be used to transmit a frame with a different TID than the first frame.
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2. The method of claim 1, further comprising: during said establishing, signaling to said second wireless STA to indicate that said first band is to be used for receiving group-addressed frames.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said receiving comprises sequentially receiving said first plurality of group-addressed frames in said first band and said second band, and wherein said first plurality of group-addressed frames have a same sequence number.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein said first plurality of group-addressed frames comprises said first frame and a second frame, wherein a transmission start time of said first time is no earlier than transmission start times of all preceding frames of said first plurality of group-addressed frames.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein said receiver cache is indexed by a combination of a group address, a TID, a sequence number and a fragment number responsive to said receiving said first plurality of group-addressed frames.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein said receiver cache stores two or more entries regarding said first plurality of group-addressed frames.
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